BROWN STUDY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brown study mean? 

• BROWN STUDY (noun)
  The noun BROWN STUDY has 1 sense:

1. a state of deep absorption or thoughtfulness

  Familiarity information: BROWN STUDY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROWN STUDY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of deep absorption or thoughtfulness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("brown study" is a kind of...):

reverie; revery (an abstracted state of absorption)

 Context examples 

I fell into a brown study as I walked on, and a voice at my side made me start.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Finding that Holmes was too absorbed for conversation I had tossed aside the barren paper, and leaning back in my chair I fell into a brown study.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One day, as he was roaming along in a brown study, thinking with no great comfort on what he had been and what he now was, and was like to be, all on a sudden there stood before him a little, rough-looking, black dwarf.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)